Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 epic tracks a covert journey into the Vietnamese jungle as a battle-scarred officer travels upriver to confront a renegade commander, spiraling into dreamlike chaos.

Robert Duvall electrifies the screen as a swaggering Air Cavalry lieutenant colonel. A celebrated actor, he later won an Oscar for Tender Mercies and earned acclaim in The Godfather films and The Great Santini.